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CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index Simple

CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index Simple

December 19, 2023

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  • The premiers’ new clothes: A critical look at the race to remove interprovincial trade barriers

    The costs of interprovincial trade barriers have been vastly overstated, while the rush to remove them risks a race to the bottom in areas like health and workplace safety

    July 7, 2025
  • Remembering the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

    On July 6, 2013, a train carrying 72 tank cars of toxic shale oil derailed and exploded. It killed 47 people, spilling six million litres…

    July 4, 2025
  • Local news media is declining in Canada—we have to reverse the trend

    The state of local news media in Canada is in sharp decline, which has serious implications for local communities and for the larger national dialogue…

    July 2, 2025
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    CBC’s road to [ir]relevance runs through cities like Hamilton

    As the national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada has a broad mandate to serve Canadians and to “reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences,…

    July 2, 2025
  • CBC/Radio-Canada: a trusted Canadian symbol

    Like many of us, I grew up with the CBC as a daily and vital part of my life.

    July 2, 2025
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    What is CBC/Radio-Canada’s role in the future of Quebec media?

    Ample research has painted a bleak picture: the crisis facing the media world is exacerbating the decline of democracy. 

    July 2, 2025
  • The truth about the CBC in Northern Canada

    Around dinner time on the evening of May 10, 2024, communication services in the Yukon—internet, cell phone, and landline—wavered, guttered like a struck match, and …

    July 2, 2025
  • The Liberals have a mandate to improve CBC funding—here’s the case for it

    One of the key issues the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre, went into Canada’s spring federal election campaign cut to the heart of Canadiana:…

    July 2, 2025
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    Quality, not just quantity, of news outlets matter—especially in rural Canada

    Communities in Canada—particularly smaller communities—are starving for local news coverage. 

    July 2, 2025
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    The promise of social planning: revisiting the CBC’s Citizens Forum

    During the spring federal election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on claims that the CBC is out of touch—elitist, irrelevant, bloated. Whether or not…

    July 2, 2025
  • Vintage CBC radio dish

    The case for a reimagined Radio Canada International

    Imagine a service that anyone in the world can access for free. That not only provides accurate news about Canada but also world events and…

    July 2, 2025
  • Image by Gina Gill Hartmann

    Hennessy’s Index

    “From its inception the CBC was intended to convey Canadian culture and to be an instrument of national unity. These objectives have been difficult to…

    July 2, 2025
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  1. The premiers’ new clothes: A critical look at the race to remove interprovincial trade barriers
  2. Remembering the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
  3. Local news media is declining in Canada—we have to reverse the trend
  4. CBC’s road to [ir]relevance runs through cities like Hamilton
  5. CBC/Radio-Canada: a trusted Canadian symbol
  6. What is CBC/Radio-Canada’s role in the future of Quebec media?
  7. The truth about the CBC in Northern Canada
  8. The Liberals have a mandate to improve CBC funding—here’s the case for it
  9. Quality, not just quantity, of news outlets matter—especially in rural Canada
  10. The promise of social planning: revisiting the CBC’s Citizens Forum
  11. The case for a reimagined Radio Canada International
  12. Hennessy’s Index

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